You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.

The vulnerability comes from the way Notepad handles Markdown hyperlinks. Attackers craft malicious .md files with embedded ...

Microsoft has fixed a serious security vulnerability affecting Markdown files in Notepad. In the company’s Tuesday patch ...

Microsoft has patched a severe security vulnerability tied to Notepad's Markdown feature. Here's what you need to know to ...

Notepad++ 8.9.2 fixes update hijack exploited to deliver malware, patches RCE flaw, and hardens WinGUp security.

High-severity flaw fixed in Windows 11 Notepad ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...

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